Caitie
@cxski.bsky.social
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Reporter: Are affirming that you think Trump is a fascist?
Mamdani: We’ve spoken about—
Trump: That’s ok, you can just say it.
Mamdani: We’ve spoken about—
Trump: That’s ok, you can just say it.
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Reporter: Are affirming that you think Trump is a fascist?
Mamdani: We’ve spoken about—
Trump: That’s ok, you can just say it.
Mamdani: We’ve spoken about—
Trump: That’s ok, you can just say it.
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Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
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Bad AI supplanting human expertise is an issue that transcends any one field, but man—not many people on earth whose knowledge and dedication deserves respect like LIBRARIANS.
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Bad AI supplanting human expertise is an issue that transcends any one field, but man—not many people on earth whose knowledge and dedication deserves respect like LIBRARIANS.
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It is worth saying that putting “Africana studies” in scare quotes as if it’s a ridiculous concept is not a political argument. It’s just racism. “Africa is not worthy of a major” is the implication. Yeah dude you’re just racist. (From Gerard Baker at the WSJ today)
www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...
www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...
November 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
It is worth saying that putting “Africana studies” in scare quotes as if it’s a ridiculous concept is not a political argument. It’s just racism. “Africa is not worthy of a major” is the implication. Yeah dude you’re just racist. (From Gerard Baker at the WSJ today)
www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...
www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...
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I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.
October 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.
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It’s always interesting when politicians say hate and violence have no place in this country. It was founded on those principles.
September 29, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It’s always interesting when politicians say hate and violence have no place in this country. It was founded on those principles.
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Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
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I can't believe I need to have an AI policy! I made it pretty short though: Using AI is cheating, yourself mostly. In addition to the environmental blight created by AI, it makes no sense to use it in your intellectual and creative work. Why would you outsource your innate intelligence?
September 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I can't believe I need to have an AI policy! I made it pretty short though: Using AI is cheating, yourself mostly. In addition to the environmental blight created by AI, it makes no sense to use it in your intellectual and creative work. Why would you outsource your innate intelligence?
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least surprising heel turn in history
Malcolm Gladwell Speaks Out Against Trans Athletes, Reversing Past Statements: "I'm Ashamed"
Malcolm Gladwell Speaks Out Against Trans Athletes, Reversing Past Statements: "I'm Ashamed"
The author behind 'The Tipping Point' admonished his prior actions, saying he had felt “cowed” by the public.
www.them.us
September 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
least surprising heel turn in history
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MASK UP!!! There is no excuse for not masking during the ongoing pandemic especially when we no longer have access to COVID vaccines (which were never enough anyway)
UK: Covid cases climb to highest level this year with thousands testing positive.
"Almost 1,500 people tested positive for the coronavirus last week, up by 20% on the week before, new data from the UK Health Security Agency has revealed."
Source: archive.md/RkUjl
"Almost 1,500 people tested positive for the coronavirus last week, up by 20% on the week before, new data from the UK Health Security Agency has revealed."
Source: archive.md/RkUjl
August 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
MASK UP!!! There is no excuse for not masking during the ongoing pandemic especially when we no longer have access to COVID vaccines (which were never enough anyway)
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More and more people are relying on ChatGPT for research when the product is so notoriously unreliable.
“The study authors asked GPT 4o-mini to evaluate the quality of 217 papers. The tool didn’t mention in any of the reports that the papers being analyzed had been retracted or had validity issues.
In 190 cases, GPT described the papers as world leading, internationally excellent, or close to that”
In 190 cases, GPT described the papers as world leading, internationally excellent, or close to that”
ChatGPT tends to ignore retractions on scientific papers
Study finds the chatbot doesn’t acknowledge concerns with problematic studies
cen.acs.org
August 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
More and more people are relying on ChatGPT for research when the product is so notoriously unreliable.
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AI is making your monthly power bill go up even if you don’t use it www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6ACJuqM/
August 1, 2025 at 1:22 AM
AI is making your monthly power bill go up even if you don’t use it www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6ACJuqM/
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Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
@roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.
A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]
June 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
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It is bizarre the way people with guns, bulletproof vests, riot shields, tanks, and other military gear act like rocks are an equal threat. It’s madness! If you are scared of rocks and think the punishment for having them thrown at you should be death, you shouldn’t be in law enforcement!
June 13, 2025 at 4:34 AM
It is bizarre the way people with guns, bulletproof vests, riot shields, tanks, and other military gear act like rocks are an equal threat. It’s madness! If you are scared of rocks and think the punishment for having them thrown at you should be death, you shouldn’t be in law enforcement!
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Yes, you did vote to deport moms.
May 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Yes, you did vote to deport moms.
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for @thenation.com, I wrote about last friday's tornado in St. Louis
www.thenation.com/article/econ...
www.thenation.com/article/econ...
In St. Louis, a Tornado Rips Across an Economic Disaster Area
May 23, 2025 In St. Louis, a Tornado Rips Across an Economic Disaster Area St. Louis can either use the disaster as an opportunity to commit to the safety of all its residents or it can continue a bar...
www.thenation.com
May 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
for @thenation.com, I wrote about last friday's tornado in St. Louis
www.thenation.com/article/econ...
www.thenation.com/article/econ...
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$50K from the Cardinals is pathetic. They pay Arenado $87K per day.
May 23, 2025 at 2:32 AM
$50K from the Cardinals is pathetic. They pay Arenado $87K per day.
Abolish! ICE!
Ransacks the house. Steals their phones, laptops, and life savings as “evidence.” The woman says before the agents leave, “We have no money. . .I have to feed my children.“ The agents tell her it could take days or months to return her money and items.
www.yahoo.com/news/ice-inv...
www.yahoo.com/news/ice-inv...
ICE Invades Wrong Home, Steals Their Life Savings, and Then Leaves
A woman says armed federal agents stole from her family and left their home trashed. “I know it was a little rough this morning,” one of them later told her.
www.yahoo.com
May 5, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Abolish! ICE!
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We need to permanently ban landlords from accessing this type of flooring
May 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
We need to permanently ban landlords from accessing this type of flooring
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You guys don’t need to try to convince me that any form of AI has merit. It doesn’t. It is boring and half-assed. I am fine getting by with human brain power. If the world nears its end and AI has one hater left, good news! I am still alive.
April 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
You guys don’t need to try to convince me that any form of AI has merit. It doesn’t. It is boring and half-assed. I am fine getting by with human brain power. If the world nears its end and AI has one hater left, good news! I am still alive.
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She wrote an article in the student newspaper. That’s all she did. The U.S. can’t call itself a free country if that gets you sent to jail.
Our union sister, Rümeysa Öztürk, has been detained by ICE for exercising her right to free speech. Please consider contributing to or sharing this fundraiser organized by Rümeysa's immigration court legal team:
Justice for Rümeysa Öztürk
Dear Friends, Allies, and Supporters,
chuffed.org
April 17, 2025 at 5:01 AM
She wrote an article in the student newspaper. That’s all she did. The U.S. can’t call itself a free country if that gets you sent to jail.